Microsoft Dynamics® AX for the Mining Supply Industry

The mining supply industry has to deal with a rapidly changing business landscape, the need to improve operational and manufacturing performance, at reduced costs, with compliance and environmental sustainability. Few enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems fit the diversity of the mining supply industry. Microsoft Dynamics AX for Mining Supply is a comprehensive business management solutions that not only meets your manufacturing, financial management and supply chain needs. It is an industry solution that is tailored to the mining supply industry in 3 key areas:

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

Microsoft Dynamics AX allows you to improve collaborative relationships with your suppliers. SRM helps you to reduce buffer inventory by integrating with Dynamics™ AX supply chain management, thus enabling updates made in collaborative-planning and inventory management systems to automatically trigger plan-driven procurement. Achieve savings and easier processes by synchronising back-office functions such as invoice approval, purchase-order creation, and payments. Microsoft Dynamics AX supports you with Purchase & Stores Requisitions, Request for Quotations (RFQs), Commitment Accounting and time based reservations.

Asset Management

Maintain mission-critical equipment and plants at the highest capability possible with solutions for your asset management needs. Innovative solutions for asset management reduce downtime by managing preventive and predictive maintenance of all your equipment. Service and Asset Maintenance (SAM) software (also known as EAM, CMMS and MRO) continues to make the headlines as a practical means and realistic way to reduce expenses and increase the bottom line. Successfully plan maintenance tasks, track and manage jobs costs, consider spare parts carrying costs and have total visibility of the asset life cycle with Microsoft Dynamics AX.

Project 'Job' Accounting

Tight control and accurate costing of projects is vital to the profitability of mining suppliers. With Project Accounting your people can quickly and accurately cost and budget projects. Easy to read dashboards and automated approval processes ensure the sharing of information and tight control of processes and project information. You can allocate resources if and when needed and respond quickly to changes in demand or capabilities. Project Accounting gives full financial overview and control and is a platform to plan, monitor and follow up projects.